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Primary Sources: Historical African Nation's Newspapers.
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Primary Sources: Historical African Nation's Newspapers.
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Algeria
Congo
Egypt
Ghana
Kenya
Liberia
Malawi
Mali
Morocco
Namibia
Nigeria
Senegal
Sudan
South Sudan
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
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Gallica: Presse par Pays ou Zones Geographique
French-language newspapers from various countries in Africa.
Algeria
Echo d'Alger 1960
L'Ouvrier algérien : organe central de l'Union générale des travailleurs algériens 1958-1963
Révolution et travail : organe central de l'Union générale des travailleurs algériens 1963-1964
Congo
Actualités du Kivu 1962
La presse africaine 1964
La voix du Katanga 1962
Le courrier d'Afrique 1960-1961
Egypt
al-Ahrām 1896-1898, 1907-1908, 1912-1913, 1970
al-Moayad 1896-1898
Egyptian Gazette 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1967
Some articles are in English or French
Egyptian mail 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1967
Ghana
African Morning Post 1935, 1937
Ashanti sentinel 1954-1955
Ashanti Times 1954
Daily Echo 1952
Daily Graphic 1952, 1956-1957, 1972
Ghanaian Times 1964
Gold Coast assize 1883-1884
Gold Coast Independent 1941-1945
Gold Coast Methodist 1886
Star 1971-1972
Kenya
Daily Nation 1964, 1974-1979
East Africa & Uganda mail 1903-1904
East African Standard 1962-1963
Kenya Gazette 1899-2012
Official gazette of the government of Kenya
Liberia
Agricultural World 1918-1919, 1922
Agriculture Express: Supplement 1929
Bensonville whip 1930-1931
Clay Ashland weekly 1925
Contains fragments of the newspaper
Crozierville observer 1930-1931
Daily News Bulletin 1940
Friend 1944, 1947, 1950, 1953-1954
Scattered issues
New Liberian 1978-1979
Malawi
Malawi News 1961-1964
Mali
L'Essor 1961-1969
Le Soudan français 1954-1958
Morocco
Al-Moghreb al-Aksa : Tangier chronicle and Morocco gazette 1911-1912
Namibia
Allgemeine Zeitung 2000-present
Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Zeitung 1901-1910
Nachrichten des Bezirksverein Windhuk (D.-S.-W.-Afrika) 1903
Windhoeker Anzeiger 1898-1901
Windhuk advertiser : the official organ of the United Service Club 1922-1924, 1951-1962
Windhuker Nachrichten 1904-1908
Nigeria
Anglo-African 1863-1865
Daily Comet 1954, 1956-1957
Daily Times 1975
Eastern Nigeria guardian 1941-1948
Eastern outlook 1954-1955
Eastern outlook and Cameroons star 1953-1954
Lagos times and Gold Coast Colony advertiser 1880-1883
Mirror 1887-1888
Nigerian eastern mail 1939-1940, 1945-1946
Nigerian Morning Post 1964
Southern Nigeria defender 1943, 1946
Sunday Times 1975
West African pilot 1937-1938, 1941, 1945, 1955-1959
Senegal
Echos d'Afrique noire 1958-1960
Paris-Dakar 1933-1942
Unité 1956-1957
Unité africaine 1957-1968
Sudan
Morning News 1960-1969
Nile Mirror 1970-1981
Sudan Daily Herald 1942
Sudan Herald 1943-1952
Sudan Standard 1970-1971
South Sudan
Nile Mirror 1970-1981
Sierra Leone
Early Dawn 1882-1892
A newspaper published in Bonthe by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
African herald 1809
Colony and Provincial reporter 1915
Royal gazette and Sierra Leone advertiser 1817-1827
Sierra Leone gazette 1808
Sierra Leone gazette 1810
South Africa
Abantu-Batho 1930-1931
Bantu World 1932-1937
Indian opinion 1926-1927, 1930
Local Opinion 1911-1914
Natal mercury and advertiser 1855-1856
Natal mercury and commercial and shipping gazette 1852-1855
Natal mercury and mercantile and general advertiser 1856
Passive resister : official organ of the Passive Resistance Council of the Transvaal Indian Congress 1946-1948
South African commercial advertiser 1824-1829
Sunday times 1957
Umteteli wa Bantu = The mouthpiece of the native people 1937-1938
Umvikeli-thebe = The African defender 1936
Tanzania
Afrika kwetu 1959-1965
Uhuru 1969-1972
Uganda
Munno 1963-1965
Voice of Uganda 1972-1973
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